The Virtual Earth and Location Summit workshop was a two-day mind swap event between researchers in industry and university along the themes of the Virtual Earth RFP that can be found on the Virtual Earth Academic Research Collaboration 2007 RFP Awards page.

Focus

The Virtual Earth™ and Location Summit workshop is intended to be a two-day mind swap event between researchers in industry and university along the themes of the Virtual Earth RFP that can be found on the Virtual Earth™ Academic Research Collaboration 2007 RFP Awards page.

The goal of the Virtual Earth and Location Summit 2008 is threefold:

Share the research results among the winners of the Virtual Earth RFP 2007 to encourage further collaborations

Understand how the assets contributed to enable academic research

Engage in a two-way conversation between university researchers and stakeholders from Microsoft and Microsoft Research